432 / 1060
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Royal
Commentaries.
BooK
IX.
and accommodation of the Souldiery, together with a Monafiery for the Select
irgin, and
a
Temple of the Sun; all\
hi h
were fo magnificent and O:ately,
and
fo
full
o
Riches,
and replenHhed
v
ith
rovifions, that
Pedro
de
Cief a
in
the
44
rh
Chapter of hi Book, commends them above the kies ; and fearing lefl: he fhoul ·
fall
iliort
in
hl
commendations, con ludes,
that
it
was
irnpoffible
for him ro ex–
prefs the wonderful! Riches,
~hi ~ h
were containtd within rhefe Royal Palaces of
ihe
Jnca.r.
In memory
f
the aforefaid Fefiiva1,
Haayna
Capac
determined to
fiyJe
his
Off.
fpring with the Name of
Tumipampa,
that
fo
that olemnity might gh·e
a
1
arne
t
hl.s
Off-f
pring,
of which there
ere
no.
more remaining
than
twenty two.
And
whereas
Huayna
Capac,
and his Father
Tupac Inca
Yupanqui
were nearefl: allied in
the
Tree of the Royal Lineage,
Atahualpa
was the more carefull and diligent to extir–
pate and defiroy them dian the others; by which means very few of them
[ca–
ped
his
malitious cruelty, as appears by the
LiO:
of fuch as furvived;
all \vhich
being
fµmmed up together, mcike the number of
5
67
perfons ; and
it
is obfer–
vable,
that they were
all
defcended by the Male, and not
y
the Female line
~
for,
as
we have
faid
before, the
Inca.s
made little efleem of the Female
race,
u efs
they
were ennobled by the Bloud of the
Spaniard1 ,
who had been the
fi rll
Conque–
rours of that Countrey, and efteemed
lncaJ,
and
fud1
as were defcended
from
their
God the Sun. The Letter
which
they wrote to me
V\
as
figned by eleven
lnca1,
according to the eleven defcents; the Chief of every one of which
fob[( ribed
for
himfelf, and thole ofhis Lineage, by their Chriftian Names and
Surnames of
their
Ancefl:ours. The Names of all the
bran~hes,
excepting the two laft, are unknown
to
me in their fignifications, becaufe they are Names proper to that Language
which
the
lnca1
exercifed amongfr themfelves, and were not common to theV\·· hole Court.
We have now onely farther to fpeak of
Don Melchior Carlos Inca,
the
ephew of
Paullu,
and Grand Nephew of
Huaynti Capac,
who
(as
we have
faid)
came
to
Spain
in
the year
1602,
in expectation of receiving great favours and rewards from the
Court; which accordingly fucceeded
in
the year
1
604,
when after confideration
had of his Worth and Merics, it was determined that a Largefs !hould
be
made
him of
75 00
Ducats of yearly Rent, and fetled forever on him and his Heirs,
and
to be raifed out of
· Majefl:y's Revenue iffuing from the
City
of
101
Re;·e1 ;
and that an additional fupply fhould be granted to
him
for
bringing
his
Wife and
Family
into
Spain:
Moreover, he had the Honour of the Habit of
antiago
con–
ferred upon
him,
with promifes ofLodgings in the King's Court:
And
that
for
the
Indians,
of which he was Lord
in
Couo
by right of Inheritance from Father and
Grandfather, they were transferred to the poifeffion of the Royal Crown, he not
being permitted to return to the
Indies.
The which informJtion
as
\Vrote
me
from
Pa!lado!id
;
what hath pa!fed fince from the
lafl:
of
March,
I
have not
been
advifed. And having fai_d thus much, we £hall
pafs
to our tenth Book,
which
t reats
of
the Heroick
ana
incredible Aetions of the
SpanitirdJ,
who gained that
Empire.
The End of the F irft
Tome.
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